I think I will quit the Sage project as soon as decisions on technical merits 
of PRs and issues will start to be taken in a nakedly political way.

I am very strongly against any political overtones in  these matters - it 
reminds me all too well what's wrong is in academia in general.

Dima




On 9 April 2024 11:21:46 CEST, Kwankyu Lee <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Reviewing a PR is a technical work, but voting on a disputed PR has a 
>political element. So I want to make a political remark concerning most of 
>the disputed PRs.
>
>The modularization project (making pip-installation packages that contain 
>portions of the sage library) started years ago with a general consensus of 
>the sage community. Matthias led the project and did most of hard works. 
>Many others did not care much about the project and still do not feel the 
>impact except when encountered with the (annoying) "# needs ..." tags.
>
>Matthias is also managing much of the sage build system and the CI (mostly 
>testing infrastructure) on github, partly to support the modularization 
>project. Many of us would appreciate that.
>
>Certainly Matthias is not an appointed dictator ruling the developers, but 
>I think we should at least acknowledge the leading role of him in the area 
>of his expertise. On technical discussions on PRs, we should give more 
>weight on his opinions from his expertise.
>
>I hope that you decide your vote by weighing the conflicting arguments on 
>the issues.
>
>Kwankyu
>
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